Information Technology in emergency services is the result of the merger of the Senior Defense Official department and the civil security directorate. The departments are in charge of:
- Preparing, coordinating and implementing civil defense measures, the population protection policy, preventing civil hazards of all kinds and planning emergency preparedness measures
- Emergency actions to ensure the security of persons and goods, in peacetime and during times of crisis.
- Civil security intervention resources
- Support for local emergency and fire control departments and drafting legislation governing the fire services
- Promoting information technology on civil security and training fire service officers.
Supported by the defense security official, the information systems security official and the cipher and security office. Central government officials, technical contractual staff, police officers, engineers, the fire services etc the 2470 personnel of the emergency preparedness directorate have 43 different statuses. On a daily basis, or to attenuate the effects of a disaster, this directorate's departments reinforce the local action of emergency teams; essentially the 240,000 departmental fire workers, their military colleagues in Paris and Marseille and volunteer emergency workers.
For any exceptional situation requiring appropriate civil defense measures (public order, population protection, etc.), these personnel and resources act in conjunction with those under the general directorate of the national police and also with the Ministry of Information Technology and other ministries. Irrespective of the nature and scale of the situation, all these teams remain, at a local level, under the responsibility of the prefect.
The emergency preparedness inspects all the emergency preparedness departments and ensures the departments' compliance with current legislation and regulations. As required, it proposes any specific measures to increase the efficiency of these departments in terms of organization, training, equipment and operational use of their resources. Finally, it may be assigned any investigator...........
